Apple to require iOS 11 for all app updates starting in July!

Going forward, iOS apps will need to adopt these technologies, and more importantly, Apple will be forcing developers who have not yet implemented support for the new display of the iPhone X to do so. While most major apps have added support for the iPhone X, there are still many apps that have not been updated and continue to have ugly black bars when used on the iPhone X.

https://www.macrumors.com/2018/05/07/app-updates-iphone-x-support-july/

So, not only will developers be required to develop using iOS 11 going forward, all developers will be forced to update current apps to iOS 11 to accommodate the iPhone X display, effectively rendering every iOS device not running iOS 11 as useless.

The only way to use these devices in the future would be to freeze every app at the current version and never update again.

Hmmmmm, sounds familiar . . .

Going forward, iOS apps will need to adopt these technologies, and more importantly, Apple will be forcing developers who have not yet implemented support for the new display of the iPhone X to do so. While most major apps have added support for the iPhone X, there are still many apps that have not been updated and continue to have ugly black bars when used on the iPhone X.

https://www.macrumors.com/2018/05/07/app-updates-iphone-x-support-july/

So, not only will developers be required to develop using iOS 11 going forward, all developers will be forced to update current apps to iOS 11 to accommodate the iPhone X display, effectively rendering every iOS device not running iOS 11 as useless.

The only way to use these devices in the future would be to freeze every app at the current version and never update again.

Hmmmmm, sounds familiar . . .

Nay, nay, and thrice nay...

I'm sorry to be pedantic, but as I do a lot of technical authoring, (and not a little coding too), I just don't get the leap that is being made here... - again, I've just read that page, - it is but reportage of the original post on the developer page....

There seems to be an unsubstantiated (by anything thus far offered) leap of the imagination taking place here... - this announcement is merely mandating SUPPORT for the newer technologies, - it in no way implies or states withdrawal of support for all other versions... - precision of language is key here to understanding what this announcement is actually saying...

To be clear... I'm NOT asserting that Apple are NOT about to impose what is being suggested... perhaps they are, at this point, I can't say one way or the other, based on the announcements that have been proposed as "proof" - the text of the original announcement on the developer site, and the subsequent reporting of that announcement are NOT saying that end user devices must be running iOS 11 to use the app store...

I'll also point you to this page: https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/02/08/how-to-download-old-versions-of-apps-from-the-app-store-on-an-older-iphone-or-ipad-that-cant-run-ios-11

Now, THAT page, truly gives more of a suggestion that end-user devices may be about to be mandated to run iOS11 in order to use the new revamped appstore... - but even this does not definitively state that all & every sub-iOS11 apple device will be effectively locked out of the appstore, which is pretty much what I understand to be being asserted by this topic... - quite the contrary in fact, since it highlights just how a sub-iOS11 device can use the appstore to get downlevel versions of apps you already own...

It's perfectly common and expected for them to demand support from developers for the newer devices, but this is not mutually exclusive with backwards compatibility with older devices...

So, it is to be the case that all apps that are in the store post July have to support iOS11 and iPhone X... it may well be the case that there is something implicit in that requirement that makes those apps no longer backwards compatible to pre 11... - Right now, I don't know that to be the case, and it is not implied by the announcement thus far presented.

Heck, I write enough code myself where one of the first things I do, is to discover the capabilities of the device it's running on, and be sure to use only whats available on that device... - doesn't have .NET framework 5 installed? then I don't call .NET5 exclusive methods.... if I can't achieve the required functionality with earlier .NET libraries, then I give a warning message & disable that part of the app...

Nobody ever "asserted" you were being "locked out of the app store" and you know it.

Here are the only two posts describing the consequences of this move by Apple:

OP:

And if your device can't run iOS 11, be prepared to not be able to update to the latest version of the app starting in July.

Me:

The only way to use these devices in the future would be to freeze every app at the current version and never update again.

Care to show us where the assertion is that "all & every sub-iOS11 apple device will be effectively locked out of the appstore, which is pretty much what (you) understand to be being asserted by this topic"? That is just you putting words in people mouths and twisting reality to justify your love for Apple in the face of them doing basically what Sonos just did. Granted Apple does give you a way to access legacy apps, then again the devices they are obsoleting aren't 13 years old. Some are a quarter of that, in fact.

Luddites...the lot of you! Just kidd'n. 🆒 Hey...change happens. Either you move forward or get left behind and in this day and age change is inevitable. Oh...there's always Android:8

Cheers!

So what is likely to happen?
a)On a device with iOS10.33, when sonos has an update, and you go to the app store from within the sonos update, you are then stuck in an eternal loop?
b)If someone in the house on iOS11 updates sonos, all sonos controllers stuck on iOS 10.33 are dead to sonos at that point?

any other synarios?